Sgt AA Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 Hi! I try, just for fun, to record some scenes from CMBB with help of the free demo version of FRAPS. There isn't really many things to manipulate in the program but I wonder if anyone has any advices about what framerate I should use for best result? And if there is there any other advices/tip out there, I'm very greatful to take part of them. Thanks in advance! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirocco Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 Your best course of action would probably be just to experiment and see what works best for you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieseltaylor Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 I found Fraps was giving me huge files just from doing flyovers on the battlefield - I am talking 100mb plus. I am not sure what you are trying to do. Though I suspect I could have reduced the file sizes it would have given me the one Director cut of the action. If you use PBEMHelper it incidentally allows you to go from film to film in a battle on the click of a key very quickly - and you can go back and forth. What I have not tried but may be possible is to run both sides films if they had the same password. A wild idea but who knows! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt AA Posted January 31, 2007 Author Share Posted January 31, 2007 Thanks for your thoughts! The size of the files is no problem, they decrease substantial when Win MovieMaker has done its jobb. My problem is more that the movie tends to be very sluggish since the framerate goes down when I start to record. We talk about 2-6 fps. Not sure it has anything to do with the settings in FRAPS, or if it's an effect caused by my hardware? I just think that it could be a fun way to "write" an AAR. If you parcipitate in a campagn, then your teammates perhaps enjoy the movie. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George MC Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Hi Used FRAPS to make this the video you get here. Problem I found was that the video is very jerky - could be by video card (which is pretty basic) or maybe something I am doing wrong. Be keen to hear how you get on. Cheers fur noo George 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt AA Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 Hi George! That makes two of us, same problem. But I have seen good CMBB movies (Operation Störfang e g) so I'm sure there is a solution. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParaBellum Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Fraps is quite performance hungry when recording movies. Try recording at half-size and reducing FPS to 25 in the Fraps options. With these settings I can record CM scenes while still having 20+FPS without problems on my system (AMD2600+, 1 Gig RAM, 7600GS). If you have a system that can barely run CM then the additional workload of a Fraps recording will bring your system to its knees. BTW one of the best movie codecs to dramatically reduze size while maintaining high quality is the DIVX codec. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
37mm Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Originally posted by ParaBellum: Fraps is quite performance hungry when recording movies. Try recording at half-size and reducing FPS to 25 in the Fraps options. With these settings I can record CM scenes while still having 20+FPS without problems on my system (AMD2600+, 1 Gig RAM, 7600GS). If you have a system that can barely run CM then the additional workload of a Fraps recording will bring your system to its knees. BTW one of the best movie codecs to dramatically reduze size while maintaining high quality is the DIVX codec. I'm pretty certain that my own movie (see the link in my sig) was recorded under these settings. Moviemaker & youtube reduce quality further... but they also increases accessibility 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParaBellum Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Very nice video AAR, Sir 37mm! Yes, the vid looks like it's been captured with the settings I described (plus the Youtube size compression/quality loss), looks quite good IMO. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt AA Posted February 2, 2007 Author Share Posted February 2, 2007 Hi! Hard to evaluate the video, not so much movements in it. But look good! I tried the suggested settings and it's still very jerky. Perhaps it's something with the hardware? I don't think my system is too weak? P4 2.56 GHz 2048 DIMM ASUS V8440 GeForce4 128M 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tankibanki Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 There are other capturing programmes which need less resurces. I remember using SnagIt. It's more complicated to set up because it has got so many options, but there are ways to make it record more smoothly than Fraps. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt AA Posted February 2, 2007 Author Share Posted February 2, 2007 Yes, tried yesterday with "Game Cam" but didn't make it work and don't understand anything 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthias Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 limit the fps 30 max, otherwise you will get MASSIVE file sizes, other then that its just down to the res you are using, then you divx it to make it smaller 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt AA Posted February 12, 2007 Author Share Posted February 12, 2007 Seems to work better now, perhaps I can help someone else by telling about how stupid I was. First I changes my screen to 60Hz according to the manufacturers recommendations. Next step was to take away CMBBs preferens file. Then I make sure that my settings was the same - CMBBs first choice was 75Hz. And now everything, so far, seems to be a lot smoother. Haven't test with any BIG sceens yet 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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